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Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen

An award-winning researcher, Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen held two major Australian Research Council Fellowships in 2005-15: an ARC Future Fellowship (2011-15) for her project on Vietnamese veterans; and an ARC Australian Research Fellowship (2005-10) for her project on Vietnamese women. She was also the recipient of a 2007 Harold White Fellowship at the National Library of Australia, and a 2011 Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Nathalie’s work deals with memory, war and migration. Her research focuses on the Vietnamese diaspora and the experiences of refugees.

A graduate of the University of Oxford, she is the author of four books, two of which have been translated into other languages. She is also the editor of a volume of essays on the Vietnam War, and guest editor of special issues on Southeast Asian Diasporas and Vietnam of the refereed journals Crossroads and Intersections.

“Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen has made a major contribution not only to the history of the Vietnam War but also to the history of wars and their aftermath.” – Peter Edwards, Official Historian of Australia’s Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-75

“In a powerful and eloquent book, Nguyen rewrites the South Vietnamese back into their own history and gives them back their voices. This is an important and overdue treatment of the missing dimension of the Vietnam War.” – Jeffrey Grey, Professor of History, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy

Book Review in Australian Outlook (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

“[An] outstanding book…. The South Vietnamese military – which lost a quarter of a million men killed in action and nearly 1 million seriously wounded – has largely been ignored, forgotten or dismissed as irrelevant. This excellent and much-needed book, however, gives voices to those unknown soldiers of the Vietnam War, and constitutes an important and necessary addition to the burgeoning scholarship of the war.” – Vietnam Magazine

“Nguyen’s remarkable achievement is her ability to allow the veterans to speak for themselves in this groundbreaking study from that tragic conflict. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” – Choice